The threat of Asteroid 2024 YR4 has not gone away just yet. The near-Earth object was discovered in December and calculations ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

In 1992, a paleontologist unearthed the fossil of a prehistoric bird called "Vegavis iaai" in Antarctica and hypothesized that it was an early relative of today's ducks and geese. However, because the ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

Bennu has a diameter of roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) and has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting our planet in September 2182.

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, according to new ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.